Late-Night Comedy Shows Avoid Harvey Weinstein Allegations... for Now - Hypocritical much?

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“Experts say it’s unlikely that any self-respecting network will ever
hire him.” – Jimmy Fallon

“I mean, it is nice to know that while liberals and conservatives
disagree on a lot of things, the one thing they can see eye-to-eye on
is that this guy is unf*ckable.” – Trevor Noah

“…the pervert on the bus.” – Seth Meyers

That’s how late-night’s television hosts addressed the sexual-
harassment allegations against Fox News anchor Bill O’Reilly, the
sexual-harassment allegations against Fox News chief Roger Ailes, and
Donald Trump’s notorious Access Hollywood tape, respectively.

And, while the choir of liberal-leaning late-night hosts has gleefully
teed off on accused sexual predators of the conservative persuasion,
on Thursday night, they chose to steer clear of the sexual-
harassment/assault allegations against one of their own: Hollywood
power-liberal Harvey Weinstein.

Now, granted, The New York Times’ eye-opening Weinstein exposé,
alleging “decades of sexual-harassment allegations”—including “at
least eight settlements with women”—dropped at around 2 p.m. ET
Thursday, giving late-night hosts only a few hours to prepare material
on the story (late-night shows typically tape between 4:30 p.m. and 6
p.m. ET), although those same shows have regularly provided same-day
jokes on Trump news that’s broken well after 2 p.m.

Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, James Corden, and Stephen
Colbert all seemingly passed on the Weinstein news, both in their
monologues and interviews with movie-star guests—Corden and Fallon
have appeared in Weinstein films—with The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah
proving the only one to mention Weinstein, albeit very fleetingly.
“Look, Harvey Weinstein!” cracked Noah in response to a clip of
Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton dismissing a female reporter
in sexist fashion.

If late-night comedians are to continue to assume the role of moral
arbiter, then they should be open to criticizing creeps on both sides
of the political divide—including those in their industry.

Hopefully, they’ll do better on Friday—or in the near future.


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Dems & the media want Trump to be more like Obama, but then he'd
have to audit liberals & wire tap reporters' phones.